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Gen. 31:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the δimagesp that were her father’s.

Judg. 17:5• ⁵{i}And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.{/i} (Judg. 17:5)

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1 Sam. 19:13• ¹³And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. (1 Sam. 19:13)

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Hos. 3:4• ⁴For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim: (Hos. 3:4)

teraphim.

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images.

Heb. teraphim.

Gen. 31:30,32• ³⁰And now thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father's house, why hast thou stolen my gods?
³²With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern what [is] thine with me, and take [it] for thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. (Gen. 31:30,32)

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Gen. 35:2• ²And Jacob said to his household, and to all that [were] with him, Put away the strange gods that [are] among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments; (Gen. 35:2)

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Josh. 24:2• ²{i}And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.{/i} (Josh. 24:2)

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Judg. 17:4‑5• ⁴{i}Now he restored the silver to his mother; and his mother took two hundred silver-pieces and gave them to the founder, and he made of them a graven image and a molten image; and they were in the house of Micah.{/i}
⁵{i}And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.{/i} (Judg. 17:4‑5)

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Judg. 18:14‑24,31• ¹⁴{i}Then the five men that had gone to spy out the country of Laish spoke and said to their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? And now ye know what to do.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And they turned thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, the house of Micah, and inquired after his welfare.{/i}
¹⁶{i}And the six hundred men of the children of Dan, girded with their weapons of war, stood at the entrance of the gate.{/i}
¹⁷{i}And the five men that had gone to spy out the land went up, entered in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men that were girded with weapons of war.{/i}
¹⁸{i}And these came into Micah's house, and took the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. And the priest said to them, What do ye?{/i}
¹⁹{i}And they said to him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for thee to be a priest for the house of one man, or to be priest for a tribe and a family in Israel?{/i}
²⁰{i}Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.{/i}
²¹{i}And they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the baggage before them.{/i}
²²{i}They were already far from the house of Micah, when the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.{/i}
²³{i}And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?{/i}
²⁴{i}And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away; and what have I more? and what is this that ye say to me, What aileth thee?{/i}
³¹{i}And they set up for themselves Micah's graven image, which he had made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.{/i} (Judg. 18:14‑24,31)

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1 Sam. 19:13• ¹³And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. (1 Sam. 19:13)

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Ezek. 21:21• ²¹For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver. (Ezek. 21:21)

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These might have been images devoted to superstitious or idolatrous purposes, as they are termed gods by Laban, in ver. 30.

The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it, {tzalmanaya,} "images;" the LXX. and Theodoret, [eidolon, {See definition 1497

J. N. Darby Translation

And Laban had gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphima that belonged to her father.

JND Translation Notes

Household images.

W. Kelly Translation

Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the teraphim that [were] her father’s.